Undeclared and unpaid work have considerable importance in Spain and so it is impossible
to leave them out of any discussion of the structure and evolution of employment in
Spain. This article provides an overview of both practices based on a number of studies
undertaken in recent years. Almost the whole of unpaid work is to be found located in the
family. It has been estimated that almost two thirds of the total work upon which the Spanish
economy is based consists of unpaid domestic work, most of which is carried out by women.
Nevertheless, voluntary unpaid work outside the family has been estimated as being equivalent
to a quarter of a million full jobs. Finally, more than one in five in the working
population in Spain are located in the ‘black’economy. The most common irregularity is
for workers not to be declared to or covered by the social security system....
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Undeclared and unpaid work have considerable importance in Spain and so it is impossible
to leave them out of any discussion of the structure and evolution of employment in
Spain. This article provides an overview of both practices based on a number of studies
undertaken in recent years. Almost the whole of unpaid work is to be found located in the
family. It has been estimated that almost two thirds of the total work upon which the Spanish
economy is based consists of unpaid domestic work, most of which is carried out by women.
Nevertheless, voluntary unpaid work outside the family has been estimated as being equivalent
to a quarter of a million full jobs. Finally, more than one in five in the working
population in Spain are located in the ‘black’economy. The most common irregularity is
for workers not to be declared to or covered by the social security system.